Art outside and in

The other day the older two were invited to a party at laser quest. While waiting for them we stopped and looked around us and saw various art displays within a few meters of each other.



So I thought I would look at the various art projects in our house from the last few days.

Boo came up with this puppet one evening.

wrist warmers
larger wrist warmers, or will be once sewn up.
our lantern, which was not easy to make
lit lantern

leaf painting
One afternoon, I wasn't feeling well and needed a project that I didn't have to plan and which would keep the kids occupied until Daddy came home and took over.

I found a make-your-own-robot kit which was perfect.

The kids even drew some beds for them.
Googs finished his monster truck...well almost, he wants to put a few more stickers on it.

And we have decorated windows! The window crayons don't come out very often as I like to save them for rainy days.

Cooking with Gran - chicken

More cooking with Gran. She has decided that she wants to teach the children the basics, teaching them recipes that her Gran used.
First job was to cut the pepper for roasting.
Once the peppers were in the oven it was time to investigate the chicken.
looking at the different parts
and even the insides! What a science lesson! :o)
Gran taught the kids how and where to cut the chicken.
Roasted peppers
once the chicken was cooked they started cutting up the vegetables for the chicken stock.
They put the chicken carcasses in with some veg to make stock.
Lunch time! From what I gathered, the children cut up some ham, some roasted peppers and grated some cheese.
cracked 3 eggs in a plastic bag and squashed them.
and then added the ham, peppers and cheese.
and popped the bag in a pot of boiling water for a couple of minutes...and ended up with an omelette for lunch :o)
After lunch, making bread crumbs.
and cutting potatoes.
stuffing the chicken kievs

rolling in flour

and egg and breadcrumbs

Cutting veg for the chicken casserole
browning the chicken
putting it all together

pouring the stock
I am kicking myself for not taking pictures of the finished meals. The kids ended up making 3 meals: chicken kievs, chicken casserole and the chicken stock made a delicious soup. Yummy!

Toffee Apples!!!!

The kids and I have talked about trying to make some toffee apples for a few weeks and finally got round to it :o)
We didn't have any wooden lolly sticks so instead we pierced the apples with chopsticks, it's more environmentally friendly anyway :o)
Here is the recipe we used:

2 cups of sugar
3/4 cup of water
pinch of salt
1/2 cup of golden syrup
tiny bit of red food colouring (although we used orange instead)

Put all but the food colouring in a pot and boil it until you get to the light crack stage (after hard ball stage) then add the food colouring, dip in 9 apples and voila!

Shiny golden jewels!
I don't think that I need to comment on the rest of the pics :o)